Man behind ‘Green Acres’ theme dies

Vic Mizzy also wrote the catchy theme for ‘The Addams Family’

AP file

Vic Mizzy at his home in the Bel Air area of Los Angeles in 2004. The Brooklyn-born songwriter who wrote the catchy theme songs to "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres" has passed away.

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updated 10:18 p.m. ET Oct. 19, 2009

LOS ANGELES - The songwriter who wrote the catchy theme songs to “The Addams Family” and “Green Acres” television shows has died. Vic Mizzy was 93.

His manager Jonathan Wolfson says Mizzy died Saturday at his home in Bel Air. He didn’t know the cause of death.

Mizzy got his start in vaudeville and wrote songs that were recorded by Dean Martin, Doris Day, Perry Como and Billie Holiday in the 1940s and 50s.

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His hits included “The Whole World Is Singing My Song” and “With a Hey and a Hi and a Ho-Ho-Ho.”

Mizzy has said that he didn’t mind if people only remember him for the finger snaps at the start of the “The Addams Family” theme song. After all, he said “two snaps got me a mansion in Bel Air.”